Cleaning up overflowing toilets just isn't very fun

[Baked]

Maybe that's why you should always give your guests dirty food so they can have the runs. That way they just squirt liquid out instead of solids.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Some one needs to take shits more often. More often you shit, the smaller the shit is.

 

[BladeVenom]

She's getting too much fiber in her diet.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

So she is from Cali and has a wide hole?

She starring in any movies that have DVDA in the title? Living in the SFV outside LA?

 

[yhelothar]

What a shitty thing to do for her to have you clean it!

 

[Number1]

Some one needs to take shits more often. More often you shit, the smaller the shit is.

With a name like yours, you don't have much credibility on this subject.

 

[OverVolt]

I think it would be a turd in the toilet is worth 2 on the floor.

 

[yhelothar]

With a name like yours, you don't have much credibility on this subject.

:biggrin:

 

[Raizinman]

We have a friend who continually clogs the toilet. He eats fast, barely chews, and over eats as much as he can. When he goes to the bathroom, there is normally a lot of straining, moaning and groaning. Then would come the embarrassment of him clogging the toilet. Since we cannot change his eating habits, we added a ‘plunger’ in our bathroom. This allows him to quickly grab the plunger and start plunging the toilet before it starts to overflow and make a mess. We now have a plunger in every bathroom. We attribute part of this to the ‘low flow’ toilets. We changed most of our toilets away from the low flow. Most plumbers know tricks to raise the water level in the tank; in essence changing the low flow into a normal flow that doesn’t get clogged as easy. If low flow clogging is a problem for you, you might check with a friendly plumber.

 

[paulney]

Ugh. I just wasted half a day on plumbing myself.

Daughter (six year old) calls: dad, my toothpaste cap fell into the sink drain. Can you get it out? (The sink drain has been missing the plug for quite some time, but I didn't get around to it, because we were remodeling the other 2 bathrooms).

Ok, not a problem. Let me fish it out. Wait, what is it down there? Looks like some kind of paper wad? I'll just take off the p-trap and take everything out at once.

I take off the p-trap. Holy cow, I find:
- a kids necklace
- a kids toothbrush
- my wife's lipstick
- shards of wine glass (washing dishes in the bathroom while kitchen was being remodeled)
- toothpaste cap

Fine. I had enough of this and the missing plug. Off to Home Depot I go and get a nice push-drain (with spring), because I hate pop-ups, and this is the only sink with the pop-up drain remaining. Time for it to go.

Ooops. Not so fast. The damn thing has been in there for so long, the top has fused with the drain flute, so there's no way to unscrew it. I get the dremel and cut the damn thing out. Clean the sink. Get out the new shiny push-drain.... - and it won't fit. Guess the sink is old, when the drains were narrower then now. So when they say 'universal fit' on the drain - no, not really universal.

But I had a spare pop-up drain lying around. Put it in, tighten everything up, put the pop-up mechanism in place. Check that everything works, run the water.... and the stupid drain leaks a bit from the factory seam! Arhghghg.... By this time I was too exhausted. I'll get another one tomorrow and put it in place.

I hate plumbing jobs.

 

[Lifted]

I don't what my mother installed in her house, but it's a tiny toilet that creates a huge suction similar to that of an airline toilet. Supposedly it's low flow too, so they either put a jet engine in the tank or a worm hole to deep space in the pipes.

 

[paulney]

Maybe it's air pressure assisted. I was wondering how to get one installed residentially.

 

[Beev]

Do you only own like 1 towel that you need to use old t-shirts to dry the shitwater?

What about paper towels?

I have four towels, it was just the day I happened to be washing them... Also, the water was like half an inch deep. Paper towels would have done next to nothing unless I used like ten rolls.

 

[rh71]

Do you only own like 1 towel that you need to use old t-shirts to dry the shitwater?

What about paper towels?

I don't know, I wouldn't use body towels to dry any shit water. I don't care if it can be washed. That's like eating off a bowl that some random dude puked in but you washed. I've got a ridiculous amount of old white t-shirts collected through the years and I wouldn't hesitate to use those.

We got some of the newer toilets since we just redid the 2nd floor and these things conserve water and have nice whoosh power too. The only downside is it flushes so fast, the shit stains sometimes remain in the bowl.

 

[Imp]

I've never known of someone or an event where the shit alone clogs the toilet.

Most instances I've seen clogging/overflow (many of which i caused), it was because of an overzealous use of a "foundation" layer - adding toilet paper into bowl to reduce splashback and lay on the toilet seat for sanitation reasons.

Some f-tard at work takes a literally 10' long (non-perforated, industrial sized rolls), untorn line of toilet paper, throws it in the toilet, and walks away without flushing. Assclown clogs so many toilets that he has to cycle through all 6 floors of my building.

 

[fjmeat]

i've never experienced such toilet problems.

 

[qliveur]

Stupid Al Gore toilets.